Cabinet for storing, supporting, and unrolling wire screening for cutting off pieces.



PATENTED JULY 7, 1903 L. K. WYNN. CABINET FOR STORING, SUPPORTING, AND UNROLLING WIRE SCREENING FOR CUTTING OFF "PIECES. APPLIOATION 211.111) 0019,1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented July a 1 e03.

PATENT OFFICE.

LAVONIOUS K. WVYNN, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

CABINET FOR STORING, SUPPORTING, AND UNIiOLLING WIRE SCREENING FOR CUTTING OFF PIECES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,310, dated July 7, 1903.

Application filed October 9, 1902.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAVONIOUS K.WYNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented anew and useful Cabinet for Storing, Supporting, and Unrolling Wire Screening for Cutting Off Pieces, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a convenient place for storing rolls of Wire screening, so that they will be readily accessible for handling them separately, and also to provide a support for separate rolls for measuring and cutting ofi different lengths at different times from dif-' ferent rolls, as required to facilitate the business of a retail merchant.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed outin my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my cabinet adapted to support a roll of wire screening upon rollers mounted on a folding shelf at one end and a portion unwound from the roll and laid flat on the top of the cabinet, as indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an end View of the cabinet and shows how the folding shelf is supported in a horizontal position by means of hinged brackets. Fig. 3 is a detail view that shows the rollers mounted on a shelf hinged to the end of the cabinet and one of the hinged brackets that can be extended to support the shelf or folded flat against the end of the cabinet to allow the shelf to hang against the end of the cabinet when not in use, as required to economize space in a store-room.

The numeral 10 designates the fiat top of a counter or cabinet that is provided with a plurality of open pigeonholes or shelves adapted for placing rolls of wire screening therein. A drawer 12 for retaining shears and other tools or objects may be advantageously stored in the drawer.- A cleat 13 is fixed against the end of the cabinet, brackets 14 and 15 hinged below the cleat, so they can foldflat against the end of the cabinet or extended outward at right angles for supporting a shelf 16, hinged to the cleat. Rollers 17 and 18 are mounted in parallel position upon the top of the shelf,

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by means of fixed brackets 19, in such a man nor that their top surfaces will be on a level with the top of the cabinet, so that when a roll of wire screening is placed upon the rollers the screening can be readily unrolled and extended over the top of the cabinet, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, to facilitate measur ing and cutting olf pieces of the screening whenever desired and the roll then returned to one of the pigeonholes in the cabinet.

A scale 20 for measuring is fixed on the edge of the top of the cabinet in any suitable way.

' It is obvious a roll of wall-paper or other merchandise in rolls may also be advantageously placed on the rollers for measuring and cutting oif parts at different times.

Having thus described the purpose and con struction of my invention, its practical operation and utility will be readily understood by retail merchants familiar with the labor. of handling and selling wire screening in pieces of different lengths at different times, and

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A support for a roll of wire screening consisting of a shelf at the end of a counter or cabinet having a fiat top and a pair of rollers mounted on the shelf, to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. A support for wire screening and other goods in rolls, consisting of a flat-topped cabinet, a shelf hinged to the end of the cabinet in a plane below the top, a pair of rollers mounted on the shelf and means for supporting the shelf in a horizontal position for the purposes stated.

3. A cabinet for wire screening having a fiat top, a measuring-scale at the edge of the top, a shelf hinged to the end of the cabinet, a pair of rollers mounted on the shelf, brackets hinged to the end of the cabinet and a plurality of pigeonholes open at one side of the LAVONIOUS K. WYNN.

Witnesses:

R. H. ORWIG, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

